Blank spaces below text in table cells

Have you checked the spacing after of the text in the cell, in the Paragraph formatting dialog?

And have you checked whether row height is set to 'exactly' or 'at least' a certain amount, in the Row tab of the Table Properties dialog?

HansV:

Thanks for the helping hand.

Your suggestion 1 puzzles me further, as it seems to refer to paragraph formatting in general. I'm a bit reluctant to change default settings I don't understand.

Your suggestion 2 seems more a propos: it's from "Table Properties." I tried specifying a different height (.5 inch instead of 1 inch) and this changed only spacing in the row where I had the cursor. I do want to find a default that will apply to ALL my table cells.

I made a copy of the worst example I have created, in the hopes that a sample will show, visually, what I am not confident of describing verbally.

Let's see if it will copy:

Well, it didn't copy exactly, but I think you see the problem better, HansV.

Thanks for any further help.

Paul

Stefan: do you mean "Paragraph formatting" in general? See my concern in previous reply to Hans

v. And thank you.

pa

Paragraph spacing may originate from different sources: the underlying paragraph style, document defaults, or the table style itself. You have to check them all. Start by looking in the Paragraph dialog box.

You should also display nonprinting marks and make a screen shot which you can upload here. Or you can post a link to an example document in Word format, which would be even better.

I don't know how representative the table in your reply is, but when I copy it into Word and display non-printing characters (Ctrl+Shift+8), I see lots of line breaks above and below the text, and lines full of spaces above the nested table:

Hello Stefan,

My general Paragraph Spacing is set at "0", which looks like the Office default.

To me this means "When you make a carriage return, or Office Word makes one automatically, there will be zero space between paragraphs."  I don't see how this applies to the empty spaces below text in a table cell?

I'm not a champion word processor, admittedly.

Paul

It could also be that vertical alignment in the cell(s) is set to "Center." Look at the Table Tools Layout tab on the ribbon.

Again, troubleshooting would be a lot easier if you could upload an example file in Word format to OneDrive or Dropbox and post a link here.